Former socialist presidential candidate Benoît Hamon retires from political life and joins an NGO – franceinfo

“I don’t have the impression of a great leap into the void.” In a newspaper interview The world published Thursday, September 9, Benoît Hamon announces his retirement from political life. The former socialist presidential candidate in 2017, who won only 6.3% of the vote, becomes the chief executive of Singa Global, a non-governmental organization that aims to create links between refugees and the companies that support them. welcome. “I don’t want to participate in the public debate in the classic form but I felt the need to be more in the action. And to join a form of half-light on the media level “, explains the former minister of François Hollande.

The latter promises not to support anyone in the primary of environmentalists and not to play any role in the campaign for the presidential election of 2022. He slips all the same not to be “not totally excited to have to choose between five or six left-wing and environmentalist presidential candidates.” Asked about his outlook on his political career, Benoît Hamon admits to having regrets but specifies that he is “too early to take inventory”. “The greatest failure of my generation is the state of intellectual decay that we measure in the speeches on the great replacement, the hatred of the foreigner, the equality, the hostility to the poor, to women. is a much less peaceful society “, he said.

I have a message. I continue but otherwise. @SINGAWorld #newlife #loyalty pic.twitter.com/MqcRPqaeiD

– Benoît Hamon (@benoithamon) September 9, 2021